Gotye sings about losing what's most important to us all: basic math and spelling skills.

Lyrics

Some Study That I Used To Know

Written by Emily Axford

STUDENT:
Now and then I think of what I learned in high school
Like AP Bio an-d British Literature
Is that igneous or metamorphic?
I don’t need to write in Iambic.
And I’ll admit I don’t know shit about Millard Fillmore

Why did I have to learn this stuff?
It has never come in handy
Never used it for nothing.
Why did we read The Scarlett Letter?
Puritans are boring
Even when one is a slut
there's actually one thing I still know:
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin
def-nitly do not need that though
Now it’s just a study that I used to know
Now it’s just a study that I used to know

TEACHER
Now and then I think of all the things I taught you
Every handout with a Farside Cartoon appropo
You don’t want to live that way
Forgetting every word I say
You said you’d never let it go
I guess mnemonic devices just weren’t enough for you though

You really freaking piss me off
I worked so hard to teach you something
Now you don’t kno-w nothing.
What does the co-nch symbolize?
Or anything beyond the first three
Digits of Pi.
‘ And what about SohCahToa?
Or A-sexual reproduction of the Protozoa?
I guess you didn’t need that though.
Now it’s just a study that you used to know
Now it’s just a study that you used to know

Slowly zoom a little too wide and show that they’re totally naked and blurred out. The teacher sneaks a quick peek at his junk then looks away. They’re both embarrassed.